You won’t find Higher Temple Street.
It went in the clearance of 19th century houses which also did for the surrounding network of streets in this bit of Chorlton on Medlock.
But I have found it on the old maps, and so know it ran south from Rusholme Road down to Brunswick Street.
Back at the beginning of the last century there were 86 properties on Higher Temple Street, ranging from shops to houses, the odd industrial site and the HQ of the local Conservative Association.
By 1959, when the picture was taken some of those buildings had gone, and judging by the boarded-up shop, these properties would also soon be gone.
That said, despite the grand plan, the newsagents clings on, still no doubt dispensing, newspapers, cigarettes and ice cream to any one left to buy them.
Location; Chorlton-on-Medlock
Picture; Higher Temple Street, 1959, "Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection", https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR0t6qAJ0-XOmfUDDqk9DJlgkcNbMlxN38CZUlHeYY4Uc45EsSMmy9C1YCk
But I have found it on the old maps, and so know it ran south from Rusholme Road down to Brunswick Street.
Back at the beginning of the last century there were 86 properties on Higher Temple Street, ranging from shops to houses, the odd industrial site and the HQ of the local Conservative Association.
By 1959, when the picture was taken some of those buildings had gone, and judging by the boarded-up shop, these properties would also soon be gone.
Location; Chorlton-on-Medlock
Picture; Higher Temple Street, 1959, "Courtesy of Manchester Archives+ Town Hall Photographers' Collection", https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/albums/72157684413651581?fbclid=IwAR0t6qAJ0-XOmfUDDqk9DJlgkcNbMlxN38CZUlHeYY4Uc45EsSMmy9C1YCk
Any idea as to why it was called Higher Temple Street?
ReplyDeleteNo .... if you follow Higher Temple Street north on to Temple Street in 1848 there was a Temple Street Mill at the top, and east of Temple Street the Grosvenor Chapel, so more research!
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